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REST DAY !
We spent today at a lodge swimming, drinking cocktails, sunbathing, and sleeping. Lovely .
Our neighbours on our little level of accommodation at camp are the "Wirral Girls" There are three of them, two sisters, and a good friend. They make me laugh a lot. Bernie told us a story tonight about a lady in clinic the day before. Two of our clinics are run in conjunction with the Kwale Eye Clinic. This is a massively important part of the programme, with a lot of the community suffering from anything from cataracts, glaucoma, foreign bodies,to simple short sightedness. You can see them in the queue, the old ladies squinting, the young boy with nystagmus, the cataracts, ...people my age who just can't read any more. ( I know how those people feel - and I have glasses).
There was a frail old lady needing to see the eye doctor. Bernie took her by the hand( by this point the elderly lady clearly thought Bernie was a bit bonkers) and led her towards what she believed to be the eye clinic. She led her into the schoolroom, sat her down at a tiny desk, and on turning round , was faced with a class of children, and a teacher, marking their work. She had inadvertently wandered into an exam- the old lady was clearly not the person who needed the eye clinic.......
Tomorrow we go back to Bugata, then maybe on Sunday a school the program has not been to before. It all depends on the roads and the weather, but whatever happens, we'll be back in our scrubs.
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